Woodley v. Hollingsworth

By the WHOLE COURT.

ROGERS, J.

Plaintiffs, as the owners of a mineral lease covering lands in the parishes of Red river and De Soto, instituted this suit against defendant, claiming $17,000 for an alleged deficiency of 30 acres in the property in the former parish, and for the price of a lease subsequently executed by defendant of 16 acres of the land in the latter parish. The demand was for $2,000 for the shortage in land and for $15,000 for the value\ of the posterior lease.

Defendant denied liability, averring there was no deficiency, but only a misdescription, through error, of the 30 acres,…